I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
WAYLON JENNINGSThose neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins’ name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn’t have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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